Landscape guidelines for planning and design of access roading to transmission lines

Abstract

The history of electricity in New Zealand is less than a century old, starting in 1885 with a small hydrostation on the Shotover River near Queenstown. In these initial years, electric power was generated by private enterprize and local bodies. However, it quickly became apparent that the country's power resources should be developed by the government for New Zealand as a whole and the first state scheme began operation in 1915 at Lake Coleridge.... [Show full abstract]